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Axel Springer licenses Politico, Business Insider, Bild and Welt content to OpenAI

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Source: OpenAI

Axel Springer and OpenAI announced a partnership on 13 December 2023 under which ChatGPT users get summaries of selected news from Politico, Business Insider, Bild and Welt, including paywalled articles, with attribution and links. Axel Springer content is also used to train OpenAI’s models.

Why it matters

Publishers gained a paid licensing route for news used in chatbots and training, which other media groups weighed against suing.

When
13 Dec 2023
ID
WTA-N-2023-0121
Where
Germany
Who
Axel Springer, OpenAI
Topics
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Summary by wheresthe.ai, from OpenAI. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

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Source copy: download the page text as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2023-0121: “Axel Springer licenses Politico, Business Insider, Bild and Welt content to OpenAI.” wheresthe.ai, 13 Dec 2023. https://wheresthe.ai/d/de-axel-springer-openai-partnership-2023-12/ (source: OpenAI).

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